Doctor's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and major field of study: 2005-06

Major field of study

Total

Males

Females

Total

White

Black

Hispanic

Asian/ Pacific Islander

American Indian/ Alaska Native

Non- resident alien

Total

White

Black

Hispanic

Asian/ Pacific Islander

American Indian/ Alaska Native

Non- resident alien

Total

White

Black

Hispanic

Asian/ Pacific Islander

American Indian/ Alaska Native

Non- resident alien

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

All fields, total

56,067

31,601

3,122

1,882

3,257

230

15,975

28,634

14,659

1,081

826

1,555

105

10,408

27,433

16,942

2,041

1,056

1,702

125

5,567

Agriculture and natural resources

1,194

592

33

43

32

1

493

710

364

17

24

13

0

292

484

228

16

19

19

1

201

Architecture and related services

201

59

3

9

15

0

115

108

30

2

2

12

0

62

93

29

1

7

3

0

53

Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies

226

110

44

15

17

6

34

98

51

14

9

6

1

17

128

59

30

6

11

5

17

Biological and biomedical sciences

5,775

3,243

175

178

491

19

1,669

2,933

1,684

72

87

242

12

836

2,842

1,559

103

91

249

7

833

Business

1,711

787

137

39

102

12

634

1,049

489

62

25

59

7

407

662

298

75

14

43

5

227

Communications, journalism, and related programs

461

275

24

16

18

1

127

206

118

4

7

11

0

66

255

157

20

9

7

1

61

Communications technologies

3

1

0

0

0

0

2

1

0

0

0

0

0

1

2

1

0

0

0

0

1

Computer and information sciences

1,416

410

24

6

105

6

865

1,109

323

15

3

77

3

688

307

87

9

3

28

3

177

Construction trades

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Education

7,584

5,107

1,093

362

240

53

729

2,664

1,858

319

131

75

19

262

4,920

3,249

774

231

165

34

467

Engineering

7,396

1,960

116

104

510

7

4,699

5,913

1,576

71

72

369

7

3,818

1,483

384

45

32

141

0

881

Engineering technologies1

75

30

5

2

3

1

34

50

18

2

2

3

0

25

25

12

3

0

0

1

9

English language and literature/letters

1,254

965

67

42

48

6

126

510

418

16

11

14

0

51

744

547

51

31

34

6

75

Family and consumer sciences

340

193

33

8

12

3

91

71

42

3

1

3

0

22

269

151

30

7

9

3

69

Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics

1,074

536

18

102

57

1

360

436

227

7

46

13

1

142

638

309

11

56

44

0

218

Health professions and related clinical sciences

7,128

5,340

356

207

517

18

690

1,959

1,337

78

62

166

8

308

5,169

4,003

278

145

351

10

382

Legal professions and studies

129

46

5

0

7

0

71

68

19

0

0

7

0

42

61

27

5

0

0

0

29

Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities

84

72

2

3

1

0

6

37

32

1

2

0

0

2

47

40

1

1

1

0

4

Library science

44

23

2

1

2

0

16

20

8

1

1

0

0

10

24

15

1

0

2

0

6

Mathematics and statistics

1,293

465

21

29

67

0

711

911

353

16

17

46

0

479

382

112

5

12

21

0

232

Mechanics and repair technologies

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Military technologies

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Multi/interdisciplinary studies

987

615

43

52

55

5

217

461

268

16

27

21

3

126

526

347

27

25

34

2

91

Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies

194

130

10

6

7

0

41

103

69

4

3

3

0

24

91

61

6

3

4

0

17

Philosophy and religious studies

578

410

41

21

24

3

79

420

297

25

17

19

3

59

158

113

16

4

5

0

20

Physical sciences and science technologies

4,489

2,092

63

100

249

9

1,976

3,143

1,483

38

64

140

9

1,409

1,346

609

25

36

109

0

567

Precision production

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Psychology

4,921

3,687

315

290

278

39

312

1,347

1,030

56

75

71

11

104

3,574

2,657

259

215

207

28

208

Public administration and social service professions

704

412

106

28

27

6

125

285

156

37

11

10

3

68

419

256

69

17

17

3

57

Security and protective services

80

57

7

7

5

0

4

42

31

2

6

2

0

1

38

26

5

1

3

0

3

Social sciences and history

3,914

2,244

182

153

181

22

1,132

2,218

1,251

82

82

70

11

722

1,696

993

100

71

111

11

410

Social sciences

3,062

1,591

146

124

139

17

1,045

1,712

847

61

69

57

9

669

1,350

744

85

55

82

8

376

History

852

653

36

29

42

5

87

506

404

21

13

13

2

53

346

249

15

16

29

3

34

Theology and religious vocations

1,429

840

171

27

94

6

291

1,123

675

104

21

75

4

244

306

165

67

6

19

2

47

Transportation and materials moving

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Visual and performing arts

1,383

900

26

32

93

6

326

639

452

17

18

28

3

121

744

448

9

14

65

3

205

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately.
NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of degree, and sex were used to estimate race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the IPEDS Fall survey: "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences and Natural resources and conservation; and "Business" includes Business management, marketing, and related support services and Personal and culinary services.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2005–06 Integrated Postsecondary Edu­cation Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2006. (This table was prepared June 2007.)